Re: SMP broken on Dell PowerEdge 4100/200 under 2.6.0-testxx?

From: William Park (opengeometry_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 12/06/03

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    On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 10:59:01AM +0000, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
    > This leads to a similar conclusion to Stian Jordet's case. It's not
    > mistaking you for HT, it's the lack of an internal distinction between
    > the cases that need and don't need irq balancing.

    I have VP6 (Apollo Pro 133A, 82c694X/686B) dual-P3 (800MHz/133MHz). I'm
    currently using MPS 1.1, because USB doesn't work with MPS 1.4 (or, it
    does but only with 'noapic'). And, I can report the same finding as
    others.

    Before:
    -------
               CPU0 CPU1
      0: 79365 63 IO-APIC-edge timer
      1: 215 1 IO-APIC-edge i8042
      2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
      4: 8654 0 IO-APIC-edge serial
      8: 1 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
     12: 52 1 IO-APIC-edge i8042
     14: 2155 0 IO-APIC-edge ide0
     15: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge ide1
     17: 0 0 IO-APIC-level eth0
    NMI: 0 0
    LOC: 79231 79266
    ERR: 0
    MIS: 0

    After 'noirqbalance':
    ---------------------
               CPU0 CPU1
      0: 15039 16025 IO-APIC-edge timer
      1: 47 75 IO-APIC-edge i8042
      2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
      4: 21 43 IO-APIC-edge serial
      8: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
     12: 21 32 IO-APIC-edge i8042
     14: 828 410 IO-APIC-edge ide0
     15: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge ide1
     17: 0 0 IO-APIC-level eth0
    NMI: 0 0
    LOC: 30865 30900
    ERR: 0
    MIS: 0

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    William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
    Linux solution for data management and processing. 
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